Today is the deadline to file your federal taxes. CPA Hardy Foreman with the firm, Carr Riggs and Ingram in Shreveport says 65 percent of his clients file for an extension, but it’s not an extension to pay…
Cut 7 (11) “…and penalties.”
Foreman says since the COVID pandemic there’s been an increase in taxpayers filing for extensions.

The Louisiana Key Academy, which is a tuition free charter school that educates children with dyslexia is expanding. Co-founder Doctor Laura Cassidy says they are building a bigger school in Baton rouge and they are opening a learning pod in Ruston this fall and there are also plans to build another school in Jefferson Parish. Cassidy says early intervention is the best…
cut 5 (11) “….much better”

There was spirited debate on the House floor over the Women’s Safety and Protection Act. Denham Springs Representative Roger Wilder’s bill says that biological females can only use female bathrooms and biological males can only use male bathrooms at schools, prisons and domestic violence shelters. It’s to prevent transgender women from using female bathrooms. New Orleans Representative Aimee Freeman voted against it…
cut 11 (11) “….of it”
But Haughton Representative Dodie Horton says the bill is not anti-anyone, it’s about protecting children against predators…
cut 12 (13) “…belong in”
The bill passed on an 80-17 vote and heads to the Senate for further discussion.